ber of the Logan County Farm Bureau 

 in 1918. He joined his father in 1927 

 in a joint membership. About 1930 he 

 took a lively interest in Farm Bureau af- 

 fairs during some open forum meetings 

 at Lincoln to discuss farm problems. 

 Shortly afterwards he was elected di- 

 rector of the local cream pooling station 

 sponsored by Farm Bureau. 



In 1934 Culnan was elected chairman 

 of his township corn-hog committee and 

 was a member of the county committee 

 a number of years. He also has been 

 connected with the Logan County Agri- 

 cultural Conservation Association. 



Fourteen years ago Culnan was elected 

 to the Logan Farm Bureau board and 

 in 1943 was named chairman of the 

 business service committee. He has been 

 board secretary since 1945. Since 1938 he 

 has been president of Logan Producers 

 Supplies, a co-op dealing in Farm Bureau 

 serum, seed, and seed inoculation. 



He became a member of his county 

 cold storage locker board in 1938 when 

 it was organized. He resigned in 1946 

 and is now a member of the state locker 

 board. He has been township school 

 treasurer since 1937 and is treasurer of 

 his community consolidated school dis- 

 trict. 



One of Culnan's proudest achievements 

 was his move to better the schools of his 

 community and the wide interest it 

 caused. Back in 1940, he and F. C. 

 Sparks, decided there was need of 

 larger school districts in Logan county. 

 This was some time before the organiza- 



tion of county school survey committees. 

 Seven school boards were called together 

 to discuss the matter. The move caused 

 the Bloomington Daily Pantagraph to 

 editorialize that some men in Logan 

 county had taken the first progressive 



Shaded area outlines the 17th district which 

 is represented on the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association board of directors by E. T. Cul- 

 nan of Lincoln. 



step in the reorganization of their schools 

 and that the move would bear watching 

 throughout Illinois. 



Culnan has been chairman of the Logan 

 County Farm Bureau Income Tax Serv- 

 ice Committee for the past seven years, 

 which assists farmers in making out their 

 income taxes. He still averages about 

 120 returns a year. 



Culnan is a director of the Producers 

 Hybrid Seed Company at Piper City and 

 is a member of the Sangamon Valley 

 Farm Bureau Farm Management Service. 



Since 1927, as a sort of hobby, he has 

 kept an account of his daily activities. 

 He can, for instance, tell you how many 

 hours his 21 -year-old tractor has run in 

 the fields and elsewhere and at what cost. 



The lAA director was married in 

 January, 1938 to the former Marie Plut 

 of Lincoln. They have three children — 

 Jane, 9; Anita, 7; and Thomas Edward, 5. 



In Lincoln, Culnan belongs to the 

 Elks lodge, Knights of Columbus, and 

 St. Mary's Catholic Church. 



"Farm Bureau," Culnan says, "is a 

 great thing for farmers. Everything else 

 in our economy is organized. So it is 

 only common sense for farmers to stick 

 together. Farm Bureau does much that 

 the average member doesn't hear about 

 but it helps the farmer make a better 

 living just the same. My father was 

 100 per cent a Farm Bureau cooperator. 

 I hope I can live up to his principles as 

 a good Farm Bureau farmer." 



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Prairie Farms 

 Manager Resigns 



DAVE HENRY has resigned as sales 

 manager for Prairie Farms Cream- 

 eries to join the H. C. Christians 

 Company of Chicago. He will be in 



charge of sales in 



the cheese division. 



As the Record 

 goes to press 

 Henry's successor 

 has not yet been 

 hired. Forrest Fair- 

 child, plant man- 

 ager at Blooming- 

 ton, will stay at the 

 Chicago office two 

 days a week until a 

 new manager is 

 named. 



Henry had been sales manager for 

 two years, succeeding J. B. Countiss 

 who left Prairie Farms Creameries to 

 become sales manager for a large hybrid 

 seed corn producer and distributor. 



Henry joined the lAA staff in 1940. 

 Entering the army in 1941, he was 

 granted a leave of absence by Prairie 

 Farms Creameries where he had super- 

 vised the butter laboratory in the 

 Chicago cutting plant and directed cam- 

 paigns to improve butter quality. At 

 the time of his discharge Henry held 

 the rank of lieutenant colonel. 



Henry is a graduate of South Dakota 

 State College and Ohio State University 

 in dairy manufacturing and dairy tech- 

 nology. He has worked in several 

 creameries in South Dakota. - 



How Much Does If 

 Cost To Dry Corn? 



How much does it cost to dry corn? 

 The U. S. Department ofAgricul- 

 ture has just released results of tests it 

 made last fall and winter on high-mois- 

 ture ear corn. 



Fuel and power costs ranged from 

 2I/2 to 7 cents a bushel and raised the 

 value of the corn from 20 to 70 cents 

 a bushel. 



Lincoln Courier Photo 



One of the youngest ever to pay a Farm 

 Bureau membership at the Logan County 

 Farm Bureau office was Edwin LaBaw. I4e 

 is shown a% he dashed In to pay a member- 

 ship for his grandntether, Mrs. Gary LaBaw. 

 Clerk Is Mrs. Florence Jaggi. 



JUNE, 1948 



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